First post of 2009
January 6th, 2009 | Pianist's life | No Response »
I take this occasion to wish you all a happy New Year! This year will again bring its share of pleasant times.
Long long time I haven’t been able to take rest. Two weeks ago, however, I finally took some days off: 7 days without piano… It did me a lot of good! These few days have made me want to work harder! I enter this new year with an extraordinary energy and intend well to keep going this way.
For 2009, we made some adjustments on the site. On the blog’s main page you can now find a tag cloud in the left column, as well as a category displaying related posts under each post.
The Audio Clips Page has also been improved to be more accessible and readable. Finally, another new thing: the newsletter. From now on, you can receive new posts in your e-mail inbox! Further updates will occur over the next months.
Just keep visiting www.pierre-arnaud-dablemont.com, so you always know the latest! You can also subscribe to our RSS Feeds for the Blog and/or for the Press Center.
As for my resolutions for 2009… Well, as usual, purely nothing! I already have a lot to do and I simply wish to successfully complete everything I have planned.
Once again bonne année to all!
So today I’d like to talk about memory and piano performance. A problem, which scares all of us, amateurs as professionals. Since Liszt, “the inventor” of modern recital, it has become compulsory to do without score on stage. Did Liszt had in mind that he was going to torment generations of pianists? I don’t hope so, 
Next week, I will give a 
It occurs to me that I haven’t dedicated a post to Brad Mehldau yet. Consider it done with this video from “resignation”, in which you can listen to the American Pianist playing in trio with Jorge Rossy and Larry Grenadier.
During 
Yesterday, 27th of november, was the birthday of the German composer Helmut Lachenmann, born in 1935. Luigi Nono’s disciple, he is considered as a major composer of our time and as the most representative of the “klangkomposition”. 
The keyboard: we find it enjoyable or we hate it because too heavy, we blame it for all evil or we praise it because it has let us play well. Each mechanics is different and gives the pianist a different feeling when playing. I received several questions about this topic from a reader, which I will try to answer. 
The municipality of Trois-Rivières in Québec has found a strange way to secure the local underground parking. The authorities have indeed installed headspeakers, playing around the clock classical music in the stairwells of this big parking lot.
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